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New comment by MatmaRex in "FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again"

MatmaRex — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:49:46 +0000

In Europe "no 737 MAX" basically means "no Ryanair". Depending on how you feel about Ryanair, avoiding the 737 MAX can be very easy.

In other places, like the US, they may not be practical to avoid.

New comment by MatmaRex in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

MatmaRex — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:21:32 +0000

Testing the keyboard.

tasting the rainbow

New comment by MatmaRex in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

MatmaRex — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:27:51 +0000

No, KeepassXC has an option to merge databases, it never caused me any trouble. I have a similar setup to parent commenter.

New comment by MatmaRex in "Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks"

MatmaRex — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:38:44 +0000

Reminded me of: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/css_calc/

New comment by MatmaRex in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"

MatmaRex — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 03:15:00 +0000

I don't think that's true. Some years ago I did a free trial with them (did not pay anything). More recently I decided to actually sign up (for a paid account) and the email address I used for the free trial years ago was not available. I eventually got that username only after contacting support and giving them the date on which I started that free trial, to prove it was me.

New comment by MatmaRex in "Fun with uv and PEP 723"

MatmaRex — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:27:58 +0000

Broke: Dependency management used for shell scripts

Woke: Dependency management used for installing an interpreter for a better programming language to write your script in it

Bespoke: Dependency management used for installing your script

New comment by MatmaRex in "ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC"

MatmaRex — Fri, 09 May 2025 15:51:22 +0000

This very article states:

> This long-standing quest, known as chrysopoeia, may have been motivated by the observation that dull grey, relatively abundant lead is of a similar density to gold, which has long been coveted for its beautiful colour and rarity.

New comment by MatmaRex in "Notion Mail is out"

MatmaRex — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:54:29 +0000

Their own Gmail client. I have yet to see one that works with normal email.

New comment by MatmaRex in "Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows"

MatmaRex — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:42:48 +0000

You're right, but the author's approach still works by accident, because ClearType is disabled when drawing text to canvas. I am not sure why that's the case, but I would guess it's because the subpixel colors can only be computed correctly when the background color is known (and static), and with a canvas, the background can be drawn later or animated. ClearType is only enabled for normal text on the page, and many CSS properties incidentally disable it presumably for similar reasons (e.g. 'will-change: opacity;').

New comment by MatmaRex in "Just: Just a Command Runner"

MatmaRex — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 19:39:41 +0000

You can keep your commands simple enough so that they can be executed by both `sh` and `cmd.exe`. If you need anything more complex than invoking other programs, `&&`, `|` and `>`, it's time to rewrite your build script in a real programming language anyway.

New comment by MatmaRex in "DELETEs Are Difficult"

MatmaRex — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 19:06:30 +0000

If you read the linked article, it explains that this is exactly what they do.

New comment by MatmaRex in "Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await"

MatmaRex — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:32:40 +0000

It seemed to me that the previous poster wanted a way to wait for the result of a promise (in a blocking manner), and I meant that this is available in other languages. You're right that it is not usually spelled "await".

New comment by MatmaRex in "Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await"

MatmaRex — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 05:27:54 +0000

You can await in a normal function in better languages, just not in JavaScript.

New comment by MatmaRex in "The ‘contain’ CSS property"

MatmaRex — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 05:50:53 +0000

Probably. I've encountered a case where setting `contain` for unrelated reasons noticeably decreased the GPU memory use as reported by the browser: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373066#10096943 (search for "As a bonus"). Wikipedia is pretty light, so in absolute terms it wasn't really meaningful, but I could see that on a more complex site.

New comment by MatmaRex in "Ask HN: Server-side HTML Templates based on DOM?"

MatmaRex — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:14:51 +0000

XSLT would be a classic answer, but it's a bit of a lost ancient technology these days. I've only used it in the browser for a lark, but I suppose you'd find mature (old) libraries for working with it easily enough.

PHPTAL is another system I've heard of (but never used) that seems to be built on this idea. It is also very mature (old). https://phptal.org/

In general working with DOM doesn't seem to be very cool these days. Everyone uses template systems that are glorified string concatenators, like Mustache, and doesn't care about security issues due to bad escaping.

GitHub no longer shows commits to mirror repos you starred on your profile

MatmaRex — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:55:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/128895

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813172

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by MatmaRex in "Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?"

MatmaRex — Tue, 07 May 2024 18:10:18 +0000

I mean… yes? I don't see what's so confusing. In an office building, if anything goes wrong, an alarm goes off and everyone leaves, and insurance pays for damages. In a residential building, you have people sleeping, sick, possessions they might not be willing to leave behind, babies, pets… It makes sense for the safety requirements to be different.

New comment by MatmaRex in "Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby"

MatmaRex — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:31:28 +0000

Everything old is new again… https://github.com/seattlerb/rubyinline (2002)

New comment by MatmaRex in "LilyPond: Music notation for everyone"

MatmaRex — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 03:06:17 +0000

It's used to render sheets and audio in Wikipedia articles (I hope this answers several of your questions). Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty#Lyrics_and_melod...

New comment by MatmaRex in "Useful Uses of cat"

MatmaRex — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:39:53 +0000

It is more pleasant to the eye if you remove the spaces:

    outfile

Just like you wouldn't add spaces in the middle of '2>&1' when redirecting stderr to stdout:

    outfile 2>&1